![]() ![]() It’s a conceit that easily could have floundered in Elliott’s capable hands, it soars. Effective both for classrooms and pleasure reading, this modernization brings new relevancy to an old story. ![]() When Theseus the hero finally struts onto the page, it’s with significant frat-bro swagger (“Ariadne! What a rack! / I knew I’d get her in the sack / As for her bro? / He won’t outlive me. Bull Available at Teacher Development & Resources Library TDRL Young Adult Fiction. He is the author of the critically acclaimed verse novels, Bull, which received six starred reviews, and Voices: The Final Hours of Joan of Arc, which was shortlisted for The American Library in Paris Book Award and is the recipient of the Claudia Lewis Award for poetry. Sometimes gods are gods / And sometimes they’re pimps”) Pasiphae grows increasingly nonsensical Asterion speaks in childlike rhymes Daedalus, labyrinth builder, is ever the architect with rigid, four-line stanzas and princess Ariadne’s flowery language is imbued with a clever slant rhyme that belies her coquettish facade. David Elliott and the New York Times best-selling And Here’s to You. Poseidon takes on the role of irreverent, anachronistic narrator, as he raps the story (“Life’s not for wimps. Rotating first-person narrations appear in a variety of poetic forms. Elliott focuses this novel in verse on Asterion and the women in his family, painting them in a particularly sympathetic light. David Elliott 58 Total Resources 23 Books. Queen Pasiphae, seduced by a bull, births Asterion, the famed future Minotaur, who is ultimately locked in a labyrinth and killed by hero Theseus. This striking reexamination of the Greek myth of Theseus and the Minotaur maintains the bones of the original story: Minos, King of Crete, angers sea god Poseidon, who exacts his revenge not on the king but on the king’s wife. ![]()
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